Figure 1: Timing of syntactic processing following different strategies. The colored circles refer to the nodes of the syntactic structure that are built at the time point the word in the same color ...

In a neuroimaging study published in PNAS, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in ...

Syntactic agreement across language modalities: American Sign Language. This paper presents an account of the expression of syntactic agreement in American Sign Language (ASL). In ASL, phi-features — ...

In applied linguistics, researchers have attempted to evaluate writing proficiency using metrics of syntactic complexity.

Conceptually (see also The Fundamental Relations of Syntax and Conceptual Structure) the head of each sentence is a predicate. The predicate combined with its arguments to form a basic eventuality.